Telstra BigPond (Australia) Users - quota-free apt repo

[James Gray]

Hi All,

I recently switched to BigPond (long and sad story) and due to their
rather small quotas I went hunting for anything and everything I could
from their quota-free content. Consequently, I have the following
sources list for my 8.0.4 LTS box.

/etc/apt/sources.list
deb http://mirror.gamearena.com.au/ubuntu/ hardy main restricted
deb-src http://mirror.gamearena.com.au/ubuntu/ hardy main restricted

## Major bug fix updates produced after the final release of the
## distribution.
deb http://mirror.gamearena.com.au/ubuntu/ hardy-updates main
restricted universe multiverse
deb-src http://mirror.gamearena.com.au/ubuntu/ hardy-updates main
restricted universe multiverse

## Uncomment the following two lines to add software from the 'universe'
## and 'multiverse' repositories.
deb http://mirror.gamearena.com.au/ubuntu/ hardy universe multiverse
deb-src http://mirror.gamearena.com.au/ubuntu/ hardy universe multiverse

## Uncomment the following two lines to add software from the
'backports'
## repository.
deb http://mirror.gamearena.com.au/ubuntu/ hardy-backports main
restricted universe multiverse
deb-src http://mirror.gamearena.com.au/ubuntu/ hardy-backports main
restricted universe multiverse

## Security Updates
deb http://mirror.gamearena.com.au/ubuntu hardy-security main restricted
deb-src http://mirror.gamearena.com.au/ubuntu hardy-security main
restricted
deb http://mirror.gamearena.com.au/ubuntu hardy-security universe
multiverse
deb-src http://mirror.gamearena.com.au/ubuntu hardy-security universe
multiverse

## Some stuff I need to make my UPnP server (Media Tomb) work better!
deb http://packages.medibuntu.org/ hardy free non-free

After editing your sources list, run a "sudo apt-get --fix-missing
update" ... or whatever the equivalent is in the GUI. Voila!!

Hope that saves someone the search :) Enjoy quota-free Ubuntu updates!

Cheers,

James

[James Takac]

Hi James

I'm sure this info would be appreciated on to Australian Ubuntu mailing list.
Do you mind if I forward this on to them?

James (Takac)

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[James Gray]

On 09/09/2008, at 12:33 AM, James Takac wrote:

> Hi James
>
> On Sunday 07 September 2008 08:28:30 James Gray wrote:
>> Hi All,
>>
>> I recently switched to BigPond (long and sad story) and due to their
>> rather small quotas I went hunting for anything and everything I
>> could
>> from their quota-free content. Consequently, I have the following
>> sources list for my 8.0.4 LTS box.

--->8--- snipped!

>
> I'm sure this info would be appreciated on to Australian Ubuntu
> mailing list.
> Do you mind if I forward this on to them?
>
> James (Takac)

Knock yourself out :) They also have the next release ("intrepid")
and all dists back to dapper available too. Just replace all
references of "hardy" to "intrepid" then do:
sudo apt-get --fix-missing update && sudo apt-get -f dist-upgrade

That will do an inline upgrade to 8.10...for people who like living on
the edge :P

Cheers,

James